Blackberry App World to Get Carrier Billing Soon
Currently, the only way to download an app onto your Blackberry from App World is to enter in all your Paypal information first to make sure you have enough to pay for the app itself. What if you’re not an avid Paypal user? Or perhaps it’s frustrating enough just to have that one extra step [...]
LG Promises Another Watchphone in 2010
The mobile community was blown away at last year’s CES when LG daftly showed off its new creation, the GD910 watchphone. With touchscreen and bluetooth capability (not to mention way-too-high pricetag), it pioneered an onslaught of several watchphones to come to market in 2009.
Now LG would like to do it again. The company announced Thursday [...]
NTT DoCoMo to Develop Phones with Self-Healing Paint
Have you ever scratched your phone? Chances are you have, and you were probably cursing the fact that phones seem to be way too vulnerable. We here at Unwired View love new ideas that could someday innovate the way we use and benefit from mobile phones.
The latest idea is from Japan’s NTT DoCoMo, which has [...]
Nokia Rumored to Consider Palm Buyout
I’ve always been amazed at how stocks can be influenced by mere rumors, but Palm’s stock skyrocketed today by 8% amidst speculation that the struggling company may be bought out by Nokia.
Now, this wouldn’t be the first time we’ve heard this rumor, but for some reason it’s resurfacing; word of a Palm takeover had been [...]
Nokia Ovi Player launched; Nokia PC Suite supports Windows 7
The Nokia Music PC suite has been updated and renamed to Nokia Ovi Player.
The Ovi Player comes with several new features, including support for Microsoft’s latest Windows 7, “some new views to help you navigate and enjoy your music collection”, a “filter column” (which should help users browse their music collection easier), and redesigned player [...]
New Mozilla Add-on Challenge can get you a free Nokia N900
Mozilla has recently announced a new contest, called the Mobile Add-on Developer Challenge, through which it will offer 10 free Nokia N900 smartphones.
What you need to do is develop a Mozilla Firefox add-on for mobile and send it to Mozilla (or you can participate with an already-developed add-on).
The contest is open until December 7, 2009. [...]
Flash 10.1 for Palm WebOS to come in the first half of 2010
Announced by Adobe at the beginning of October, Flash 10.1 for mobile will be available for Palm’s WebOS smartphones starting the first half of 2010.
At least that’s what Adobe says to WebOS users who are currently trying to access Flash-based content on their handsets.
And in case you’re wondering, there’s still no word on when Apple’s [...]
Windows Marketplace for Mobile updated, PC-based shopping now available
Microsoft announced that Windows Marketplace for Mobile has just received several new features, including developer portal enhancements, PC-based shopping and an anti-piracy protection.
From now on, Windows Mobile 6.5 users will be able to buy applications not only via their phones, but also from their desktop PCs, by visiting the Windows Marketplace for Mobile website.
The changes [...]
Inventor Turns Cell Phone into Microscope
Over the last decade our mobile phones have evolved greatly from just being a simple phone that allows you to make calls anywhere outside your home, to being a miniature computer. We now wonder exactly where mobile phones will evolve over the next decade, and this story posted in the NY Times may give us [...]
Samsung bada smartphone OS announced, will be launched in December
Samsung has just announced that its own smartphone OS is called bada – a word that means “ocean” in Korean and “was chosen to convey the limitless variety of potential applications which can be created using the new platform.”
The Samsung bada open mobile OS will be launched in December this year, when a SDK (software [...]